The New School

News about The New School, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Feb. 7, 2015

New School in New York City is reshaping its curriculum to focus more on climate change and sustainability; school has also said it will divest itself of all fossil fuel investments. MORE

Nov. 30, 2013

Ruedi Baur, designer known for creating navigational signage for the Louvre and Rodin Museums in Paris, as well as at Vienna Airport, has been hired to develop 'way-finding' system for New School's new University Center; school hopes that Baur's system will bring cutting-edge vision as well as sense of place to unique building. MORE

Aug. 22, 2013

In 1964, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a speech at the New School. No audio record of that has been found, but the school has recovered a tape of a Q. and A. session that followed. MORE

May. 19, 2013

A workshop focused on the art of the suicide note and epitaph is part of a monthlong series of performances, installations and lectures called the School of Death. MORE

Feb. 2, 2013

Former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey has resigned as president emeritus of the New School, following his appointment as executive chairman of experimental education venture the Minerva Institute for Research and Scholarship, based in San Francisco. MORE

Jan. 15, 2013

Bob Kerrey, former president of Manhattan's New School who is still on the school's payroll, announces plans to become executive chairman of the Minerva Project's Institute for Research and Scholarship. MORE

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